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Demystifying Data Breaches in India
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Pawan Singh
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Oct 17, 2022
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filed under:
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Data Governance,
Data Protection,
Data Management
Despite the rate at which data breaches occur and are reported in the media, there seems to be little information about how and when they are resolved. This post examines the discourse on data breaches in India with respect to their historical forms, with a focus on how the specific terminology to describe data security incidents has evolved in mainstream news media reportage.
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In India, Biometric Data Storage Sparks Demands for Privacy Laws
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 23, 2016
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
In India, calls for strict privacy laws are growing after this week's passage of a measure that allows federal agencies access to biometric data of the nation's citizens, the world's largest such repository.
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News & Media
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UIDAI says asked nobody to add the helpline number to contacts
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Admin
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published
Aug 13, 2018
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filed under:
Internet Governance
UIDAI says the toll free number 1800-300-1947 in the contact list of Android phones is an ‘outdated and invalid number’
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April 2016 Newsletter
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Apr 30, 2016
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last modified
May 10, 2016 06:26 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the CIS newsletter for April 2016. The key issues we worked on this month included the Aadhaar Act 2016, Standard Essential Patents, cyber security of smart grids, and involvement of international agencies in the smart cities project in India.
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Health IDs: Voluntary or Mandatory?
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by
Pallavi Bedi
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published
Jul 22, 2021
On August 15, 2020, the prime minister launched the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) with the objective of improving and streamlining the Indian healthcare system. In December 2020, the Central Government, notified the National Digital Health Mission: Health Data Management Policy (Health Data Policy) seeking to create a digital health ecosystem under the NDHM. A core pillar of the Health Data Policy is to create a unique health identity (UHID) for every Indian citizen.
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Human Rights in the Age of Digital Technology: A Conference to Discuss the Evolution of Privacy and Surveillance
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by
Amber Sinha
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published
Jan 11, 2016
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society organised a conference in roundtable format called ‘Human Rights in the Age of Digital Technology: A Conference to discuss the evolution of Privacy and Surveillance. The conference was held at Indian Habitat Centre on October 30, 2015. The conference was designed to be a forum for discussion, knowledge exchange and agenda building to draw a shared road map for the coming months.
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Aadhaar's the largest biometric database globally but it is leaky by design
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 12, 2017
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filed under:
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
It the largest biometric database in the world and it is fraught with security issues.
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News & Media
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Paranoid about state surveillance? Here’s the FD Guide to living in the age of snoops
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by
Admin
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published
Dec 16, 2017
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Surveillance
The US does it, so does China. Ever since Edward Snowden’s revelations back in 2013, which exposed the extent of the US’s global surveillance apparatus, the public has been fairly clued into the extent of mass surveillance.
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Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms, and Human Rights - Workshop Report
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Vidushi Marda, Akash Deep Singh and Geethanjali Jujjavarapu
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published
Nov 14, 2016
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last modified
Nov 18, 2016 12:58 PM
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filed under:
Human Rights,
UID,
Big Data,
Privacy,
Artificial Intelligence,
Internet Governance,
Machine Learning,
Featured,
Digital India,
Aadhaar,
Information Technology,
E-Governance
The Centre for Internet and Society held a one-day workshop on “Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms and Human Rights” at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on the 1st of October, 2016. This report is a compilation of the the issues discussed, ideas exchanged and challenges recognized during the workshop. The objective of the workshop was to discuss aspects of big data technologies in terms of harms, opportunities and human rights. The discussion was designed around an extensive study of current and potential future uses of big data for governance in India, that CIS has undertaken over the last year with support from the MacArthur Foundation.
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Internet Governance
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National Health Stack: Data For Data’s Sake, A Manmade Health Hazard
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by
Murali Neelakantan, Swaraj Barooah, Swagam Dasgupta and Torsha Sarkar
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published
Aug 17, 2018
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last modified
Sep 16, 2018 05:01 AM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Aadhaar,
Internet Governance,
Healthcare
On Oct. 5, 2017, an HIV positive woman was denied admission in Hyderabad’s Osmania General Hospital even though she was entitled to free treatment under India’s National AIDS Control Organisation programme. Another incident around the same time witnessed a 24-year-old pregnant woman at Tikamgarh district hospital in Madhya Pradesh being denied treatment by hospital doctors once she tested positive for HIV. The patient reportedly delivered the twins outside the maternity ward after she was turned away by the hospital, but her newborn twin girls died soon after.
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